577 |
A CHINESE HARDWOOD DISPLAY CABINET with a carved cornice over a pair of glazed doors incorporating lower panels carved with stylised dragons, geometric emblems and foliage, on carved legs united by square stretchers and terminating in stylised claw and ball feet, 47.5" wide. See illustration £500-1000 | Nil |
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| 578 | A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE FRONTED CHEST OF DRAWERS, the shaped top with satinwood stringing above two short and three long flush fitting drawers with brass handles, on shaped bracket feet, 47" wide. See illustration £700-900 | Nil |
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620 |
| 579 | AN 18TH CENTURY DUTCH FLORAL MARQUETRY CABINET, the upper section with a scrolling and moulded cornice with central carved detail, above twin glazed doors enclosing an interior with decoratively shaped shelves, the sides with canted corners mounted with mirror panels, the lower section with two short and two long graduated bow fronted drawers between canted corners with all over floral and leaf marquetry, 64" wide. See illustration £5000-8000 | Nil |
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| 580 | A CHARLES II OAK DRESSER BASE, the rectangular top with a moulded border of an arrangement of four short and two long drawers with block moulded fronts, on spiral turned legs, 75.5" wide. See illustration £2500-4500 | Nil |
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2600 |
| 581 | AN IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE NEEDLEWORK WALL HANGING depicting the children of Israel gathering manna, the border with putti, animals, grotesques, hippocampi, drapery swags, fruit and landscape vignettes, probably French, circa 1600-1620, 78" high x 136". See illustration Provenance: From the collection of Harold Peto, Esq., Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, and thence by descent. Literature: Illustrated in situ at Iford Manor in Country Life 28th September, 1907. Probably that referred to in the Dictionary of English Furniture by Ralph Edwards , volume III, page 7. This remarkable wall hanging may be compared to the set of valances from the Irwin Untermeyer Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. | Nil |
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17000 |
